The parlor has always been the most intimate and private place in the Caravel, reserved for my father Franco’s friends and the powerful
of the earth. Several times, in the 1960s, Andy Warhol also dined there, for the first time a guest of Gore Vidal. He was among the
protagonists of the first exhibition dedicated to Pop Art, set up more than fifty years ago precisely in Amalfi in the ancient Arsenali
of the Maritime Republic. It was he who suggested coloring the barrel ceiling and the walls of the living room, previously
white: black the former, purple and red the latter, respectively. Unfortunately, the lighting of the time, provided by elegant
ceramic lanterns, did not provide our guests with enough light to appreciate, even visually, the quality of the dishes.
Reluctantly, I decided to have the room repainted in lighter colors. And only God knows how many times I had to suffer the rebukes
from Gore Vidal who challenged me for “erasing” the only room in the world painted by the king of Pop art. Today, great
architects from all over the world offer me their advice to restore the environment created by Warhol. But I prefer
that of that season, among the many unforgettable ones at the Caravel, only the memory remains.